Men’s fashion is dreadfully boring, but one thing we used to have was a profusion and proliferation of different hats we could wear.

I know the m’lady meme and mall ninjas have forever cursed the fedora (as well as the actually, that’s a trilby crowd), but those memes postdate the decline of the hat by several decades.

Currently, we only have baseball caps and beanies in common circulation, with impractical-for-sidewalk-use cowboy hats being the only extant outlier.

Does anyone long for the return of the hat and/or have any insight into what caused their decline?

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        16 days ago

        What do you think people would assume about you if you wore a cowboy hat? Or is it just you don’t like to draw attention to yourself?

        I probably would assume you were trying to make some kind of statement with a cowboy hat, even though its origin was obviously utilitarian.